The pioneering justice graduated from Stanford Law School in 1952 in the top 10 percent of her class but famously struggled to find employment because so few firms would hire women at the time. “It’s good to be first,” she would later say, of her responsibility as a trailblazer. “But you don’t want to be last.”
The professor emeritus of anesthesiology and of pediatrics invented a transport incubator for newborns and helped establish pediatric anesthesiology as a specialty.
William Weis, a pioneer of molecular imaging, dies at 64
The former chair of structural biology at Stanford Medicine refined advanced imaging techniques and described the 3D structure of many cellular components.
Walter Falcon, global authority on food security, has died
Raised on a farm in east Iowa and educated in a one-room schoolhouse, the Stanford economics professor was an internationally sought-after agricultural adviser.
The environmental engineer’s groundbreaking experiments led to the discovery of anaerobic bacteria that could break down contaminants in groundwater reservoirs.
